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9/11Surviving in an Asian Megacity
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- Publication date
- 2005
- Usage
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Topics
- jakarta, indonesia, urban poor, oceania, indymedia, newsreal, asia
- Language
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Item Size
- 115.5M
With a population of over 10 million, Indonesia's capital Jakarta is one of Asia's mega-cities. Like similar cities, there is increasing tension between an expanding elite population and a growing urban poor. The mayor of Jakarta has a solution to this problem - evict the urban poor. This video looks at life in three poor communities in Jakarta, highlighting their strategies for survival in very uncertain times.
